This first pass only applies to the following two cases:
- Public functions returning a view type into an object they own
- Public ctors storing a view type
This catches a grand total of one (1) issue, which is fixed in
the previous commit.
We added this for String some time ago, so let's give Utf16String the
same optimization. Note that Utf16String was already handling its data
member potentially being null as of 5af99f4dd0.
Utf16FlyString more or less works exactly the same as FlyString. It will
store the raw encoded data of the string instance. If the string is a
short ASCII string, Utf16FlyString holds the ShortString bytes; else,
Utf16FlyString holds a pointer to the Utf16StringData.
This is a strictly UTF-16 string with some optimizations for ASCII.
* If created from a short UTF-8 or UTF-16 string that is also ASCII,
then the string is stored in an inlined byte buffer.
* If created with a long UTF-8 or UTF-16 string that is also ASCII,
then the string is stored in an outlined char buffer.
* If created with a short or long UTF-8 or UTF-16 string that is not
ASCII, then the string is stored in an outlined char16 buffer.
We do not store short non-ASCII text in the inlined buffer to avoid
confusion with operations such as `length_in_code_units` and
`code_unit_at`. For example, "😀" would be stored as 4 UTF-8 bytes
in short string form. But we still want `length_in_code_units` to
be 2, and `code_unit_at(0)` to be 0xD83D.
